The Politicization of Expertise
Right now, we’re either witnessing a golden age of expertise or a crisis of expertise, depending on who you ask. It’s undeniable that technology has democratized access to high-quality information, data, and tools for research, creation, and distribution.
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
“... careerism tends to undermine democracy by divorcing knowledge from practical experience, devaluing the kind of knowledge that is gained from that experience, and generating social conditions in which ordinary people are not expected to know anything at all. The reign of specialized expertise … is the antithesis of democracy.”
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But our need for expertise presents us with three conundrums: First, if we don’t have specialized knowledge ourselves, how do we even start to think about what knowledge we need and who is a reliable expert in that domain? Second, assuming we have found reliable expertise, how and when do we appropriately fold in the other key elements of a decisio
... See moreRobert MacCoun • Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense
Political partisanship had morphed into tribalism, and debates over the issues of the day had come to feel less like differences of opinion than like disagreements about the nature of reality.